Beppe DeVito, Chef-restaurateur and founder of il Lido Group
The man behind some of Singapore’s buzziest dining concepts wears many hats. Beppe De Vito, founder and owner of il Lido Group, juggles a variety of restaurants ranging from luxe dining destinations Art, Gemma and Michelin-starred Braci, to breezy rooftop bars Levant and Southbridge, to casual restaurant Amò. The dynamic Italian chef certainly seems to have a knack for ideating and executing crowd-pleasing concepts his latest venture is Carne, a joint partnership with chef Mauro Colagreco of three Michelin-starred restaurant Mirazur in France. It ticks all the right boxes in sustainability, a game changer for a restaurant specialising in the icon of the fast-food industry: burgers.
Shangri-La Hotels Bee’s Knees Gin
Created by the Shangri-La Hotel Group at their Fort Bonifacio location, Bee’s Knees lays claim to being distilled and bottled on hotel property, inside Shangri-La s own gin lab. General manager John Rice says, “Our journey is not only rooted in providing our guests with the experience they have come to know and love, but to embrace the community and ecosystem that surrounds our environment. In this case, we pay tribute and uplift the talent already present in the Filipino bar community. What better way to do so than to bottle that in a Filipino-raised spirit?”